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On Mon, July 11, 2005 4:02 pm, Christoph Eckert said: |
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>> For the kernel, deprecated == likely to be removed soon == |
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>> obsolete. Now, it is true that only the OSS drivers are |
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>> deprecated, not the OSS emulation provided by ALSA. |
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> The question is if the ALSA OSS emulation is a good idea. |
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> Because it exists, people are not urged to use ALSA. |
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There is also OSS ALSA emulation. |
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>> I have no problem with applications supporting OSS for |
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>> operating systems besides Linux, because as you say, that |
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>> is the standard for those systems. I do have a problem |
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>> with apps that insist on *only* supporting OSS for Linux. |
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> That's true. |
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>> What really bugs me is that most of the offending apps are |
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>> commercial applications that don't even have ports for |
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>> Solaris, FreeBSD, etc!! Besides, it isn't like supporting |
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>> multiple sound APIs is really all that hard.... |
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>> >>Note that, AFAIK, there is no mixing possible with the |
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>> >> OSS API. Your |
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>> >It does support mixing. |
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>> According to the dmix HOWTO, you are correct, it should |
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>> work. I guess I just gave up too easily, and I stand |
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>> corrected. Thanks. |
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> If an application tries to access /dev/dsp, DMIX does - AFAIK |
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> - not work transparently. INstead you have to start the |
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> application using the aoss wrapper, maybe aoss skype or aoss |
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> reaplay. This doesn't work convenient for the user. |
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> Furthermore, there seems to be a bug so Skype will crash as |
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> soon as it gets invoked via aoss (I don't know if it is a |
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> Skype or an aoss bug). |
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> So, if want to stay idle for incoming Skype calls, do not |
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> start any other sound application because Skype blocks your |
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> device... |
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I am admittedly not to familiar with Linux's implementation of OSS, it |
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could be that it is obselete and buggy. I have only used OSS in other |
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operating systems. In my experience mixing and/or dynamic virtual channels |
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are available with /dev/dsp through kernel/modules no userland |
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applications are needed. This all seems kind of irrelevant though, I |
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believe this guy is using ALSA with OSS emulation :p. |
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James Tanis |
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jtanis@×××××××.org |
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http://pycoder.org |
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